By Mike Dunne in the Sacramento Bee A new book by an expert on the Napa Valley isn’t hopeful about the direction Napa has taken: water availability, traffic congestion, pollution and erosion in the valley, and corporate takeover of…

Total incompetence by the supervisors if they do not realize destroying a watershed along with water quality from siltation and chemicals that will be used is good for the residents. Follow the money here……citizens you have the right to good health,…

napavalleyregister.com/news/local/appeals-court-backs Appeals court backs Napa County in Watershed Initiative Dispute BARRY EBERLING beberling@napanews.com Barry Eberling California’s First District Court of Appeal has issued a decision making it harder for backers of a controversial watershed and oak protection initiative to…

Excerpts: “A plurality of 37.8 percent of participants somewhat agree that vineyards are culturally important to the county, while 79 percent strongly agree that redwoods and oak woodlands are culturally important. “All of the participant groups agree that…

Friends of Gualala River Forest Unlimited California Native Plant Society MEDIA RELEASE Date: January 28, 2017 The “Dogwood” Timber Harvest Plan (THP), an environmental review of the first major logging of the mature redwood forest on the sensitive floodplain of…

Friends of Gualala River and Forest Unlimited have joined forces to litigate CalFire’s approval of Dogwood. Using copious amounts of water for dust control and miles of skid roads in a diminished watershed is not a good idea. Where do…

31,000 trees to be cut in Napa for more “1%’er” resort & vineyards……“The billionaires are driving the millionaires out.” New vineyards and resorts rising above the Napa Valley threaten the region’s water BY STETT HOLBROOK http://www.bohemian.com/northbay/of-water-and-wine/Content?oid=2966570 In the winter of 2015, a…

There are petitions online and CalFire is still accepting comments for their exception to state logging rules. They have revised the skid roads and some of the logging along the Gualala river. CalFire is still making an exception to the…